TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS UNDER THE SEA & OTHER TALES OF STEEL & SORROWS - Peel, John
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We often say that certain characters from literature are "immortal". So, if they are immortal, surely they must have had further adventures? John Peel knows that they did, and he recounts further tales of those classic greats… What hidden adventure did Captain Nemo have that was excluded from his tale? What strange streets of Victorian London did Carnacki the Ghost-Finder stalk - and what fresh horrors did he uncover there? Why did Mr. J.G. Reeder agree to burgle an English country house at the request of Inspector Maigret? How could a man who was locked alone in a bank vault manage to get…mehr

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We often say that certain characters from literature are "immortal". So, if they are immortal, surely they must have had further adventures? John Peel knows that they did, and he recounts further tales of those classic greats… What hidden adventure did Captain Nemo have that was excluded from his tale? What strange streets of Victorian London did Carnacki the Ghost-Finder stalk - and what fresh horrors did he uncover there? Why did Mr. J.G. Reeder agree to burgle an English country house at the request of Inspector Maigret? How could a man who was locked alone in a bank vault manage to get shot to death? Doctor Omega knows the strange answer to a really locked room mystery! Tarzan is Lord of the Jungle… But what of his mate, Jane? Was she always simply in his shadow? Or did she venture further afield? And in further tales, you will visit King Arthur's Camelot, Ben Franklin's revolutionary Revolutionary War, a smattering of vampires, two crazy female samurai warriors, Zorro… and even Death him/her/itself… Enter within, to the pages of adventures filled with steel and sorrows.
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John Peel, known as Jack, was born in Newcastle in 1943. He graduated from the Army Apprentice School as a Fitter and Turner in 1961, completing his trade training in the engine room of AV 1379 Tarra. For the next seven years, he was employed as an engine room watchkeeper with the Royal Australian Engineers Transportation service, where he served on all four Landing Ships Medium of 32 Small Ship Squadron and the cargo vessel John Monash, as the ships visited Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Singapore and South Vietnam. He attained the rank of Temporary Warrant Officer in 1969. Commissioned as a Captain in 1981, Jack served as the Cadre Officer 33 Terminal Squadron and then as the Officer Commanding the Army Maritime School at Chowder Bay from 1985 to 1987, retiring as Second in Command 10 Terminal Regiment in 1988.